mardi juin 03, 2008

GlassFish v2 on OpenSolaris

One of the nice things about the recent OpenSolaris release is the size of the ISO (it fits on a CD). The IPS (Image Packaging System) takes care of adding the additional features such as GlassFish v2 (with a nice use of ZFS to snapshot before/after state of the filesystem).

Installing GlassFish v2 using IPS and the graphical tool (/usr/bin/packagemanager) is quite easy but has a few gotchas:
• proxy - when using an HTTP proxy, you need to export http_proxy=http://host:port and launch gksu /usr/bin/packagemanager from the same shell.
• no domain created - the binary installed doesn't provide a domain (like the traditional domain1) by default. You need to create the /var/appserver/domains directory before you can use asadmin create-domain.
• the version installed is 9.1_01, not the latest 9.1_02 (or 2.0_02 with the GlassFish numbering)

The total download is around 250 MB (includes JDK 6)